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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Canan, Fatih
• Golasi, Iacopo
• Falasca, Serena
• Salata, Ferdinando

Titel

Outdoor thermal perception and comfort conditions in the Köppen-Geiger climate category BSk. One-year field survey and measurement campaign in Konya, Turkey

Ist Teil von

• The Science of the total environment, 2020-10, Vol.738, p.140295-140295, Article 140295

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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ScienceDirect Journals (5 years ago - present)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study presents an analysis of the thermo-hygrometric conditions in the city of Konya (Turkey). A one-year transversal field survey was carried out in the Selçuk University campus and 2295 valid questionnaires were collected. In each questionnaire, randomly selected interviewees provided personal information and judged their perception and thermal preference according to the ASHRAE 7-point and McIntyre scales, respectively. For each interviewee, a value of the Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET) was calculated based on the values of operational variables obtained from the questionnaires and the environmental variables measured during the survey. This allowed to calculate the seasonal preferred and neutral PETs and the annual PET comfort range. Also, the scale of the PET thermal perception was determined for the Konya population and, more generally, for the inhabitants of the BSk Köppen-Geiger climate zone. Statistical analyzes carried out in terms of Variance Inflationary Factor, multicollinearity assessment and Best Subsets Analysis led to the identification of the Turkish Outdoor Comfort Index, an empirical index able to predict the average value of the thermal perception of a large group of individuals living in the aforementioned climate zone. Moreover, the equations of the Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD) were obtained for each season. [Display omitted] •Evaluation of outdoor thermal comfort in the Köppen-Geiger climate zone BSk•A one-year transversal field survey with over 2000 questionnaires was carried out.•Neutral and preferred PETs and annual PET comfort range were obtained.•The empirical Turkish Outdoor Comfort Index was introduced.•The Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied relations were rearranged for each season.